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Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

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Editors:
  1. Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

    1. CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Matosinhos, Portugal

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  2. Virgílio Meira Soares

    1. ULisbon, CIPES Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Lisbon, Matosinhos, Portugal

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  3. Ulrich Teichler

    1. International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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  • Offers a European, cross-national approach to academic careers in higher education
  • Is the first to present the results of the national Portuguese satisfaction study in English
  • Offers a comprehensive review of human capital literature in the higher education context
  • Gives a tentative analysis of the changing nature of academic strategy in the transformational world of higher education

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Ulrich Teichler
    Pages 1-8

  3. Erratum: Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

    • Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Ulrich Teichler
    Pages E1-E1

  4. Higher Education Academia: Global Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Teaching Versus Research: An Endangered Balance?

      • Ulrich Teichler
      Pages 11-28

    3. A Bastion of Elitism or an Emerging Knowledge Proletariat? Some Reflections About Academic Careers with an Economic Slant

      • Pedro N. Teixeira
      Pages 29-47

    4. Academic Strategy in the Emerging University – A Transformational Perspective

      • Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Marvin Peterson
      Pages 49-66

  5. Portuguese Higher Education Academia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Academic Job Satisfaction and Motivation: Perspectives from a Nation-Wide Study in Public Higher Education Institutions in Portugal

      • Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Rui Brites, J. Brites Ferreira, Minoo Farhangmehr, Odília Gouveia et al.
      Pages 69-139

  6. Country Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Academic Careers During the Massification of Austrian Higher Education

      • Hans Pechar, Elke Park
      Pages 143-166

    3. The Academic Profession in Germany

      • Ulrich Teichler, Ester Ava Höhle, Anna Katharina Jacob
      Pages 167-191

    4. Between Tradition and Transition: The Academic Career in Italy

      • Massimiliano Vaira
      Pages 193-210

    5. The Societal Embeddedness of Academic Markets: From Sex to Gender in the Swiss Context

      • Gaële Goastellec, Fabienne Crettaz von Roten
      Pages 211-229

    6. From Academic Profession to Higher Education Workforce: Academic Careers in the UK

      • John Brennan, Rajani Naidoo, Monica Franco
      Pages 231-252

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 253-267
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About this book

This volume explores the various issues that have an impact on the academic career of professionals in European higher education. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are currently subject to profound uncertainties and are more challenged than ever on quality issues, both with regard to their conceptual nature and in the extension and amendment of their mission. Divided into three parts, the first part of the book deals with the challenges and issues in higher education academic careers. It addresses such topics as the influence of European policies and changes, the cultural differences in the preferences of academics for teaching or research, the increasing inequality in working conditions for academics, and the changing nature of academic strategy in the transformational world of higher education with its implications for academic structures, work and careers. The second part of the book analyses the findings of a national study on satisfaction of academics in Portuguese highereducation, carried out at the Centre for Research on Higher Education Policies (CIPES). The third part offers a comparative analysis of a number of national European case studies, focusing on the changing relevance of and increasing expectations around academic careers. The concluding chapter discusses whether the academic profession is merely an artificial term that has to do with a heterogeneous range of occupations, or if there are important common elements of the academic profession across European Higher Education systems. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

  • ULisbon, CIPES Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Lisbon, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Virgílio Meira Soares

  • International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Ulrich Teichler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

  • Editors: Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Ulrich Teichler

  • Series Title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45844-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45843-4Published: 02 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83383-5Published: 17 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45844-1Published: 21 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2214-5346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0378

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education

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